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It's the last inning for the Hatford boys and Malloy girls, as the girls are finally moving back to Ohio after a year (and ten books) in small-town West Virginia. The faux-feuding and practical jokes that have fueled the series are more tepid in this final entry, but the characterizations that have sustained it remain solid and appealing. P.S.: It's a draw.